ODEN style miso soup recipe

ODEN is stew that contains fish cakes, boiled eggs, and vegetables. Seasonings are only dashi (stock) and salt, so the taste is very simple and bonito or konbu (sea cabbage) stock are very important for ODEN. One thing you would like about ODEN is that you can pick your favorite ingredients from the hot pot. If you visit Japanese convenience store, there are so many kinds of ingredients in ODEN box. Each one of them is around 1 dollar, and you can just take few of the items as snack.

Actually I’ve already introduced miso soup with ingredients that can also be ingredients for ODEN such as…
-HANPEN
-SATSUMA-AGE
-GANMODOKI
-THICK FRIED TOFU

I really like all of those ingredients, and I would like to introduce another tasty material: “chikuwa (tube-shaped fish paste cake)”

Cooking ODEN hot pot at home is kind of tough thing because making good dashi and buying all of ingredients are bothering. Today’s recipe is the best for me! I hope “ODEN style miso soup” will gives me happiness as much as real ODEN.

Chikuwa in the miso soup created wonderful dashi (stock) more than I expected!The great dashi from the fish paste and miso paste definitely fulfill the requirements of ODEN.I am so happy that this miso soup become such a tasty bowl of ODEN.